This sermon emphasizes the importance of recognizing and addressing spiritual poverty, highlighting how material wealth and status do not equate to strong faith. It challenges individuals to evaluate their spiritual state and collective faith within families and communities, pointing out the need to prioritize spiritual growth over worldly possessions and achievements.

What is happening to you? How are you? My reply was, I am okay. She would not believe me. She turned the light on. What did she see? I was in the middle of a heart attack. When they said, we must get an ambulance. Oh, I said, no ambulance for me. I am okay. I am okay. My dear people, when spiritually we are in that state of ignorance, who can help us? Nobody could persuade me to go to the hospital and have a check-up. I am okay. Look at that. Thou does not know that thou art wretched and miserable. Poor, generally people who are poor are very conscious. I know a young man who came to America and he was working very hard at his studies. And always he would say, you know, I am very poor. I am very poor. I said, look, that kind of mind must go. All right. Once upon a time, you were born into a poor family. But you are full of that consciousness. You have got to get rid of this mind. So, anybody who is economically poor, oh, he is very conscious. I do not have any land. My friends have bought this, bought that. They, my colleagues, have got the biggest motorbike. I am only on this putt-putt hundred CCs. What I would like is a Harley Davidson. Harley Davidson, one of the biggest motorbikes. Now, that is how the imagination of young people is running these days. But on our spiritually, God says, Hey, this is a very poor man. He has not got the wherewithal to take care of a family. He has not the faith for those two children whom he has to bring up. He is poor. Now, my dear friends, we are not concerned with our spiritual poverty. I feel that we are coming down in faith. I can see it. As bigger degrees are acquired, as your status climbs, and your pay scales rise, I do not see that your faith is any better. On the contrary, we were just told of our collective faith. There are two or three grown-up children in the house, and the father and the mother, and what is the cumulative faith, collective faith? We never seem to total the figure. How many are minus quantities there? All right. Look at this congregation. A lot of people with so various talents. What is the sum total of our faith? What is the sum total of our collective faith? I do not know how to evaluate that. But heaven knows. The Lord knows right now. This is a minus quantity, minus thousand, minus ten thousand. This man is not even a hundred digits. He has a million in property. But in his faith, he is a lightweight. He is of no reckoning. How sad. Our family's faith is not becoming a huge spiritual capital. You know, I have been brought up with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And my father always used to focus on this faith that was passed on to the children.